ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2007, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (6): 938-947.

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Review of Job Insecurity

Hu Sanman
  

  1. College of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079,China
  • Received:2007-03-28 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-11-15 Published:2007-11-15
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    Hu Sanman

Abstract: Job insecurity refers to employees’ perceptions and concerns about the threats of imminent job loss and loss of valued job features. The issue of job insecurity has received growing recognition in the research fields of organizational behavior and occupational health psychology since 1980’s. This paper recommended five distinct ways to clarify the opaque and then focused on the measures and research approaches. Moreover, a great deal of empirical work about antecedents, consequences and moderators of job insecurity has been systematically reviewed. Finally, new trends pertaining to the future research of job insecurity were discussed as follows: (1) standard measurement; (2) situation of organizational changes; (3) antecedents and consequences; (4) moderators; (5) longitudinal research; (6) cross-culture comparison

Key words: job insecurity, moderator, employee, organization

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